Panetta Defends Pentagon's Benghazi Response

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Pentagon's response to the Benghazi attack.

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I ... I ... we're not dispatch ... she ... the reason simply because our view a fees ... AC one thirty gunships were fixed wing fighters ... but the associated taking ... you've got a reply here refueling ... abilities are moments that are mobile weapons for input on the war on the plane ... targeting and support facilities ... we're not in the vicinity of Libya ... and because of the dance to ... would of taken at least nine to twelve hours ... if not more to deploy these forces to bring God's ... this was pure and simple ... the absences I said of any pride of advance warning ... problem of distance and time ... frankly even if we were able to get the F sixteen through the AC one thirties over the targeting time ... the mission still depends on accurate information ... about what markets the most ... and we had no forward air ... controllers there ... we had ... no Kamel no communications with U S personnel on the ground ... as a matter fact we had no idea where the investor was at that point ...